A great list of jazz songs has been compiled further for all of you to read and select your favorite numbers.
Jazz style of dance shows a cumulation of sounds, rhythms and various techniques of music. Similar to the character of jazz music, jazz dance is basically a platform for an individual dancer and his/her individual skills.
The African-American community in the United States is known to be the origin of this form of dance. It had been in existence right from the early 1800s and by the time of First World War, it came to be known as a different genre altogether.
Some Great Jazz Numbers to Dance To
A Long Drink of the Blues - Jackie McLean
A Night in Tunisia - Sonny Rollins
A Remark You Made - Weather Report
A Year Ago - Kenny G
Acknowledgement - John Coltrane
Aerial Boundaries - Michael Hedges
Anonymous Skulls - Medeski, Martin & Wood
Ask the Ages - Sonny Sharrock
Back at the Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith
Back Water Blues - Bessie Smith
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Bemsha Swing - Thelonious Monk
Big Chief - Professor Longhair
Birdland - Weather Report
Black Satin - Miles Davis
Blue in Green - Miles Davis
Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck
Bumpin' on Sunset - Wes Montgomery
Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck
Chain Gang Blues - Ma Rainey
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
Charleston - James P. Johnson
Chitlins Con Carne - Kenny Burrell
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Count Basie - Atomic Basie
Cover Girl - Larry Coryell
Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
Don't Stop the Music - Jamie Cullum
Downhearted Blues - Lovie Austin
Dream a Little Dream of Me - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk
Eternal Child - Chick Corea's Elektric Band
Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Five Hundred Miles High - Stan Getz
Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis
From the Soul - Joe Lovano
Lazy River - Pete Fountain
lt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra
Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer) - Bessie Smith
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's
Hamp's Hump - Galactic
Havana - Kenny G
Hog Callin' Blues - Charles Mingus
How Do You Keep the Music Playing - James Ingram & Patti Austin
I'll Be Seeing You (1944 Single) - Billie Holiday
I'm All Over It - Jamie Cullum
Icarus - Winter Consort
In a Sentimental Mood - John Coltrane & Duke Ellington
In the Mood - Glen Miller
Just One of Those Things - Jamie Cullum
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington & Bill Withers
La Vie en Rose (Single) - Louis Armstrong
Some More Songs
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
Mister Magic - Grover Washington Jr.
Moon Tune - Bob James/David Sanborn
Moritat - Sonny Rollins
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
My Feet Can't Fail Me Now - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
My Funny Valentine - Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker
Naima - John Coltrane
New York, New York - Liza Minelli
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Jimmy Cox
One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie
Our Man in Paris - Dexter Gordon
Out of the Cool - Gil Evans
Out of the Night - Brian Melvin Trio
Pharaoh's Dance - Miles Davis
Places and Spaces - Donald Byrd
Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong
Psalm - John Coltrane
Pursuance - John Coltrane
Race with Devil on Spanish Highway - Al DiMeola
Resolution - John Coltrane
Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus - Sun Ra and his Arkestra
Room 335 - Larry Carlton
School Days - Stanley Clarke
Science Funktion - Donald Byrd
Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderly
Son of Mr. Green Genes - Frank Zappa
Speak no Evil - Wayne Shorter
Straight Life - Freddy Hubbard
Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Tea for Two - Art Tatum
The Creator has a Master Plan - Pharoah Sanders
The Dial Sessions - Charlie Parker
The Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
The Girl From Ipanema - Getz/Gilberto
The Hong Kong Incident - Jing Chi
The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Three Views of a Secret - Jaco Pastorius
Till You Come to Me - Spencer Day
Tones for Elvin Jones - John McLaughlin
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole
Volunteered Slavery - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Wheels - Jamie Cullum
When you're in Love - Horace Silver
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues - Ida Cox
Willow Weep for Me - Wes Montgomery
The King Is Here - Norman Brown
Blues For Jeff - Paul Brown
Happy Go Lucky - Paul Hardcastle
I'm All Ears - Cindy Bradley
Infinite Soul - Will Donato
Infinite Soul - Will Donato
Just Dance - Adam Hawley Featuring Dave Koz
So there you are with an exhaustive list on some of the most popular jazz songs. Now jotting down your fave numbers might be tedious. So an easy way out is bookmarking the page or getting a printout of the same.